Shortly after walking into the nurse’s station on the Blue Ridge Hospice Inpatient Care Center, one of the nurses craned her neck around the doorway and asked, “Hey doc, would you mind meeting with room 8’s family when you get a chance?” “Sure,” I replied, “what’s the situation?” Having not read through the patient’s chart yet, I was curious as to how I was needed. The nurse related that the patient in room 8, [...]